Witness History Episodes Available now
The launch of the Hubble Space Telescope
How NASA put an orbiting observatory into space in 1990.
Red Hollywood
Former actress Marsha Hunt remembers the anti-Communist witch-hunt of the late 1940s.
The fight to make sexual harassment a crime
The story of a landmark ruling for women's rights in the United States.
The 'I Love You' computer virus
How a virus created by a Filipino college dropout sparked global panic in May 2000
Marburg virus
A deadly new disease infected laboratory workers in a small town in West Germany in 1967.
The SARS epidemic
How the world battled a deadly respiratory disease in 2003.
The polio vaccine
Scientists in the US led by Dr Jonas Salk develop an effective vaccine against polio
The Ebola virus
The first documented outbreak of the deadly disease occurred in the 1970s in Zaire
The 'Spanish' flu
In 1918 an extremely deadly form of influenza killed millions around the world
The Major and the VW Beetle
How a British army officer saved Hitler's Volkswagen Beetle at the end of World War Two
